Stories & Poems” hosts local writer/poet Karen Bellerose who will be joined journalist/musician Bob Beer for the monthly sharing circle. The event takes place at the Wilkinson Public Library in the magazine room at 5:15 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 17. For more information, text 970-729-0220 or email...
Helmed by Executive Director Peter Schweiss for 22 years of its 32 years, the Sedona Film Festival, (SFF), 2/21 - 3/1, has become world-renowned for bringing award-winning films and meaningful conversations to its growing community through filmmaker Q & As, workshops and seminars. The celebrated editor...
Valentine’s Day began as a mid-February ancient Roman fertility festival (Lupercalia). Later the event was overlaid with the feast day of Saint Valentine, a largely obscure Christian martyr, and only became associated with romance in the Middle Ages. That shift came when poets — most...
Helmed by Executive Director Patrick Schweiss for 22 years of its 32 years, the Sedona Film Festival, (SFF), 2/21 - 3/1, has become world-renowned for bringing award-winning films and meaningful conversations to its growing community through filmmaker Q & As, workshops and seminars. Scroll down to...
The medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer often took liberties with history, placing his poetic characters into fictitious historical contexts that he represented as real. No record exists of romantic celebrations on Valentine’s Day prior to a poem Chaucer wrote around 1375. In his work ‘Parliament...
Helmed by Executive Director Patrick Schweiss for 22 years of its 32 years, the Sedona Film Festival, (SFF), 2/21 - 3/1, has become world-renowned for bringing award-winning films and meaningful conversations to its growing community through filmmaker Q & As, workshops and seminars. Among the stars...
Marketing guru Scott Haltzmann wrote a book entitled "Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever." When it was published back in 2006, woman gave it as a gift to their hubbies on Valentine's Day. Among the helpful hints for happy living together: • A person...
Sedona has drawn people the way landscapes draw light: quietly and consistently, suggesting a kind of open promise highlighting natural beauty. Its signature red rock formations feel less like scenery than a magical, mystical presence: sculptural, attentive. In other words, Sedona is a place of...
Countdowns and fireworks from Times Square’s iconic ball drop to the early fireworks over Sydney Harbor, cities mark midnight with spectacle. In the Southern US, black-eyed peas are consumed for luck. The tradition in Spain is 12 grapes at midnight, one for each month. of...
New Year’s Eve is the final day of the Gregorian calendar year—December 31, a threshold moment when one year gives way to the next. Culturally, it is a night charged with endings and beginnings: reflection, release, and renewal. On the subject of the last Big Event...
